1st PFS collaboration meeting

Date: July 11 - 13, 2011

Venue: lecture hall, 1st floor of IPMU, Univ of Tokyo

Goals of the meeting

The PFS white paper was a science document largely constructed within
the Japanese community to illustrate the overall potential of PFS. At the
January Subaru Users meeting PI Murayama suggested that the exploitation
of PFS should be undertaken in two ways: (i) an international SSP involving
both the core PFS team and the members of the Japanese community, and (ii)
general access by the Japanese community for independent programs. Before
funds can be raised for the instrument, the international partners in PFS
must better understand the arrangements.

Specifically, we need to discuss how the international SSP will be
developed. By when must it be agreed? What are the science areas it will
contain? Will there be any flexibility in the science case given we cannot
predict now all the important science PFS may accomplish when it is undertakes
a survey perhaps in a period some years away? It may be that the PFS SSP does
not follow precisely the format of earlier SSP programs.

As IPMU is not a representative of the Japanese astronomical community, the
meeting can act as an important means for discussions between the Japanese
community and the core PFS team.

The meeting will also provide a much-needed opportunity to review the
newly-formed PFS project office. How will this office function and interface
with the international partners? Technically, the project faces many hurdles
in developing a credible timeline given the numerous constraints. What are
the restrictions on spending the current IPMU funds? Different components of
PFS are in different stages of technical and financial readiness. Will
construction be begun before all the funds have been raised? Will project
reviews of the various components be conducted simultaneously or independently?

Agenda

Monday, July 11

Time

Name

Title

0830

coffee and light breakfast

0900

Hitoshi Murayama (IPMU)

a kick-off talk, the goals of the meeting

0915

Richard Ellis (Caltech)

Core Team requirements and overview of science projects

0945

Hajime Sugai (IPMU)

Report from the project office

1030

Break

1050

Jim Gunn (Princeton)

Princeton comments

1110

Paul Ho (ASIAA)

Taiwan comments

1130

Laerte Sodre Jr (Sao Paulo)

Brazilian comments

1150

Olivier LeFevre (LAM)

Marseille comments

1210

Lunch

1340

TBA

Subaru Strategic Project (SSP) Survey

1400

Masamune Oguri (IPMU)

HSC collaboration

1420

Hideki Takami (NAOJ)

Subaru view of PFS

1440

Nobuo Arimoto (NAOJ)

SAC view

1500

Break @IPMU tea-time

1530

Jim Gunn (Princeton)

science cases with PFS

1600

Jean-Paul Kneib (LAM)

scienece csees with PFS

1630

John Silverman (IPMU)

galaxy evolution

1700

Tohru Nagao (Kyoto)

QSO

Tuesday, July 12

Time

Name

Title

0830

coffee and light breakfast

0900

Masahiro Takada (IPMU)

PFS White Paper (the version by the Japanese community)

0930

Masami Ouchi (Tokyo)

high-z galaxy

1000

Coffee

1030

Discussion on SSP science team (Murayama, Ellis, Suto, Arimoto, Gunn)
- What is the PFS science team?
- What are the main scientific drivers?
- How does PFS science fit into SSP?
- Collaboration issues
- Action items